St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-12
NOT BY BREAD ALONE.
Truth and Duty Are Alone Suffi-
cient 10 Mankind

Client 10 Mankind
Rev. Marion d. Shutter preached at
the Church of the Redeemer yesterday
morning upon the words, Man shall
mot live by bread alone
The account of the temptation is the
dTaping that the writers threw about an
event which took place in the heart of
Jesus. The suggestion to make bread
of stones was suggestion TO fOregO the
high and holy purpose that had grad
ually formed within his mind and turn
himself into manufacturer of lOOves
for mankind, DO something to advance
the temporal prosperity OF the world
and reap profit for himself. The words
which he quoted in reply were spoken
by Moses ages before him. Jesus found
comfort and strength in a sentiment
that had appealed to the hearts of men
in other wears. Within himself there is
a want for something more than bread.
There are aspirations and purposes that
fame and plenty will not satisfy. Truth
and duty are alone sufficient. Jesus was
made stronger by the thought that 9th
erS before Him had felt the same needs
and formed the same resolves. He was
one with the race. We are one with
Him and with all who have been
newly kindled furnace we have to walk
when we are called upon TO decide be-
tween the lower and the higher ends of
life. Man is a creature of many needs.
He must have bread. indeed. but he has
Imagination that Graves beauty. intel
lect that demands knowledge. con-
science that will have naught but right
eOuSness. affection that asks for
love. aspirations that rise TO the
infinite. These constitute the larger and
better part of his nature. They exist.
in possibility within the lowest and
worst of our race. The real problem of
life is to bring them into play and fully
develop them. He who lives most is he
who uses most OF his nature. Narrow
ness. i'll one way and another, is the
common fault of mankind. The higher
purpose of life is defeated by those who
are merely what their professions and
callingS make them. We are preach
eTS and business machines and lawyers
and mechanics. but very few of Us are
men in the broadcast and best meaning
of that term. Each one is shut up
in some little corner Of his nature, and
there he lives and dies. Every man has
a higher calling than that by which he
earns his daily bread: he has a higher
calling in his nature and character. The
merchant Must learn that he does not
live by his merchandise. nor does the
mechanic live by his tools. If he fails
to grow in love. in righteousness, in
Justice, in knowledge, his outward
success is but the gilded cover
ing of lifelong mistake. There are
other ways in which the real purpose of
life may be defeated. We see some
times a man whom nature built upon
large and generous plan: whose normal
development has been arrested by
rigid and gloomy theology. so that in
stead of becoming large and beautiful
and magnanimOus. he has become harsh
and bitter and almost malignant. Many
d fine large nature has been dWarfed by
an auStere and narrow religion. The
aim of life may be defeated by insisting
too cOncluSlvely upon the cultivation of
single virtues. One man will have moth
ing but faith" another nothing but
courage" The real purpose of life is
fulfilled in developing Symmetrically the
entire nature. But how shall this cul-
ture be secured? First of all one must
resolve to secure it. When the cOnvic-
tiCn that he must have it burns itself
into his soul, when his will arOuSeS and
puts on its armOr. ways will open and
means will be found. Let a
man see. III MS Ordinary WORK.
not simply means of securing
his daily bread, but means of discipline
and culture. Let him train his con-
science by scOTning to do that work in
any but the most faithful and perfect
manner. Let him cultivate devotion by
seeing in his task-thOugh it be shovel
ing earth or mending a fence-sOme con-
nectiOn with the larger work of the
world in all ages. and thus with the
divine plan. In other ways God has
provided to meet these higher wants
which bread will not satisfy In the
social and domestic relations he pro-
vides to meet affection. The works of
nature. the records of past ages. the i'll
YeStigatiOnS of science. meet the demand
for knowledge. The things wrought by
painter and sculptor and poet and musi-
elan. meet the demands of imagination
and taste. Philosopher and prophet
Socrates and Moses and Isaiah and
Paul-speak to the innermOst spirit.
God, Himself. is accessible TO him who
seeks. What. after all. is this much
mOOted question of inspiration? Every
man is capable of inspiration TO greater
or lesser extent; that is. capable of
being lifted from lower to higher moods.
capable of hearing in his conscience and
aspiration the divine message. Is not
this inspiration? Some men have had
more of it than others. some have caught
the divine tones more clearly and re-
corded for us what they heard: but the
canon" is not closed and cannot be
until God has exhausted Himself. or
man has persisted from the universe.